[Magdalen] Easter Vigil.

[Jay Weigel]

This particular UMC is also doing Maundy Thursday (with communion) and an
"open door" 12p-3p Good Friday for what they term "private prayer or
reflection", with a formal Good Friday service at 7 pm, along with the
Easter services. Pretty high church for a country Methodist church! They
do, incidentally, have a female pastor, and the bishop (I don't know how
they divide their areas or circuits or whatever they call them) of this
locality is also female. I've noticed that a lot of the local UMCs have
female clergy (the smaller ones share, of course).


On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:50 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
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> I can understand the ideal of having the Great Vigil be THE parishwide
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> Easter celebration, but if mainly the clergy are the ones interested
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> in that ideal, it won't work so great. The big Sunday morning festive
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> Eucharist needs to be there, too, in many places. We've certainly got
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> that. (We do the Vigil at 8pm Saturday and then our regular schedule
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> at 8, 9, and 11 on Sunday). Might take some years to move toward the
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> Vigil only, and some won't be able to manage the time of day it
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> happens; for some it's too long or too strange...
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> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The Easter Vigil is a very cool thing in theory, but I was somewhat
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> > on the idea years ago when a friend and I asked some logistical questions
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> > about our rector's plan to completely scrap the Easter Sunday festival
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> > Eucharist in favor of the Easter Vigil and ended up being blamed for it
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> > being canceled entirely. I haven't quite warmed up to the idea since. I
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> > think I could, if it were held at a decent hour, but I don't like to
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> > at night any more.
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> Scott R. Knitter
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> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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